Show farmers coolidge and lowden in accord TF YOU want to see sec the day when IF tile the grand old neanian of JL our country said frank 0 lowden in a speech before the operative cooperative co marketing conference IS shall hall be replaced iced by tile peasant and all that tile peasant implies then resign yourselves to marketing conditions so unfair so unscientific su so largely based on speculative greed that hat t it makes a large crop worth less in tile the aggregate regate titan than a small crop take cotton as an example this happens increase the yield less than 6 5 per cent and you dec decrease the price 20 per cent Is there any justification for such a system of marketing its aa that under any just sane or sensible system oystein would that sort of paradox be possible it happens in butter in corn in hogs Is it any wonder farmers lost faith in the present method of marketing farm products when they saw 1923 corn marketed tit at a price below the price of production A few minutes after farmer lowden had find finished president calvin coolidge backed him blin up farmer coolidge cooledge agreed with him film saying firmly as I 1 believe in ili the broadest land and soundest programs ta of operative cooperative co inar I 1 want to make inako plain that I 1 nin am no blind believer in any magical atti lauto of the operative cooperative co proceeding A good deal that la Is positively mischievous has been puta put about boutin in this regard there Is a school of co opera tors who seem to believe that tile the program can be started at the top an and built downward down waid they want the government ern ment or the banks or philanthropists or providence to lay out a big enough to cover tile the country set its ita machinery moving guaran teo tee it nil all needed capital and then invite alte the farmers to alt in the places reserved served le for them and proceed to gar nr ner their profits 1 I offer no such aladdin like project 14 1 I want to see society as a whole help but I 1 want to see the farmers do their share and I 1 warn them that this will be the lions share the first steps step tile the president thinks operators cooperators co should take are 1 establishment lish ment of grades anu anti standards standard 2 encouragement of good und and elimination of valet varieties les 3 increase in the efficiency of production product lon 4 provision of a unified product adapted to its market 5 organization of distribution and 0 creation of confidence in ili products and methods |